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The Historian as Detective: Essays on Evidence

The Historian as Detective: Essays on Evidence

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The Historian as Detective: Essays on Evidence

by Robin W. Winks (ed.)

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Harper Colophon Books (Harper & Row), 1970. Soft cover. Good. 543 pages, with bibliography. Essays by a variety of writers on the pitfalls of historical research. Trade paperback, remainder mark is a hole punched through front cover and several pages, slight shelf wear and soil, spine sunned/soiled, diagonal crease across back cover, edges/page margins age-tanned. Name of former owner written on ffep, underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 10 pages and rear end papers.

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Bookseller
Berthoff Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
AEB-327
Title
The Historian as Detective: Essays on Evidence
Author
Robin W. Winks (ed.)
Format/Binding
Soft cover
Book Condition
Used - Good
Quantity Available
1
Binding
Paperback
Publisher
Harper Colophon Books (Harper & Row)
Date Published
1970
Weight
0.00 lbs
Keywords
HISTORIOGRAPHY, POPULAR REVISIONISM, TESTIMONY, GRASSY KNOLL, JFK ASSASSINATION, ESSAYS
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Essays;

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Berthoff Books sells books previously owned by the late Warner B. Berthoff, Professor of English and American Literature, emeritus, at Harvard University, and members of his family. Some books contain marginalia by Warner Berthoff, the late Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (U. Mass-Boston, English composition and rhetoric), or others, which we aim to describe accurately. Our inventory features English and American fiction and poetry, 20th-century literary criticism, world literature, history, and philosophy. Other categories are history and politics of Australia, Asia, South Africa and the Middle East; intelligence agencies and gnostic beliefs; Russian literature and criticism; and Russian and Soviet history.

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FFEP
A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
Spine
The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Colophon
The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
Trade Paperback
Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...
Remainder Mark
Usually an ink marking of some sort which indicates that the book was designated a remainder. In most cases, it can be found on...
Shelf Wear
Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
Marginalia
Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...

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